The Dörr Hotel will be the first such project built in northern Door County in 20 years. It is being put up on a site that has been vacant for nine years. It is intended to be the replacement for the former Helm’s Four Season Hotel, which had 45 rooms.

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Matalco’s new factory will produce more than 230 million pounds of aluminum billet a year. Its main product will be 6xxx series extrusion-grade billet and logs made primarily from scrap aluminum. Within two or three years, 80 people are expected to be employed full time at the plant.

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State officials announced this week that Catalent Biologics will undertake a $75 million expansion of its cell line development and biomanufacturing site in Madison.

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Lisa Mauer, the chair of the board of directors of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., has named 15 members to the new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Committee, which will meet later this month.

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Gov. Tony Evers has announced the appointment of Missy Hughes to serve as secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.

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Gov. Tony Evers says he hopes to name a new leader for Wisconsin's economic development agency within two weeks.

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Gov. Tony Evers says he's starting a search for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp.'s next leader.

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Wisconsin's economic-development agency has decided that the medical diagnostics company Exact Sciences Corporation doesn't have to repay the state any of the tax credits it received for creating jobs elsewhere, even though the company itself had promised to return $61,000.

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Madison will get a $250,000 state grant to help the city redevelop a building that's part of the former Oscar Mayer complex into a commercial and retail space.

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A Chinese firm is planning a $189 million expansion of a paper mill it purchased last year in Biron and will receive state tax credits to support the project.

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